Counting Crows - New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall
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Free Music Notes for New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Music Hall
Free Music Review: Everything From Auguest And After....
Hit: 5 Stars
This album was made because counting crows are just starting on tour and they wanted to release it to get fans of thier backs and probably the record company too. Counting Crows have FINNISHED half of thier new album, and the other half will be completed at the end of the summer tour with the goo goo dolls, and will be released sometime early next year or maybe even late this year. This is some older stuff, but the quality is amazing, better than any bootlegs you may have, mastered very well. The setlist is great filled with some rare songs, some cover songs, and one new song. Counting Crows are an amazing live band, they are the type of band that you can see them a hundred times and never get bored, cause everytime its something new and different. Thier one of the most bootlegged bands in the last 30 or 40 years, so that should say alittle about what most people think of them live.
This is a really nice set, I PERSONALLY would recommend getting Across A Wire first, then this one, as Across A Wire shows you the two sides of the Crows, The soft acoustic, then the solid rock.
The best tracks on this album (in my opinion) are:
*Catapult - they dont play this one alot and not usally this way, very refreshing!
*Four White Stallions - This is a real nice cover song, always been one of my favorites
*Perfect Blue Buildings - Dark painful song, not played much,very underrated!
*Hazy - its something new, inspired by an artist that i really like, Gemma Hayes
This is a great album, no acoustics, but oh well.. i highly reccomend you buy the album here from amazon, then go to iTunes and pick up the bonus track, Black and Blue Live (another amazing dark, painful song) for 99cents! (if you by chance live in the uk, you can get Mr Jones from itunes as a bonus track!)
Free Music Review: What Were They Thinking
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a cd from a few years ago and we have all heard these songs before except for Hazy. Thanks Gemma for at least inspiring that. Perfect Blue Buildings is a rarity and is
nice to hear. This cd is just just a pre lude to a long awaited studio disk, and just a hunch an attempt to keep the people at Geffen happy.
Free Music Review: One of the worst concert bands ever, with a terrible setlist!
Hit: 1 Stars
To me, the Counting Crows have been one of the most lackluster concert acts the past two decades. The tracklist for this CD doesn't help since it omits the majority of hit songs the band has released since their inception. Stay away!Free Music Review: Always Counting Crows
Hit: 5 Stars
Im a pretty big Counting Crows fan and I always enjoyed their music since they were The Himalyans. I have always thought that their music was best heard live. On Across The Wire they showed the harder side and the softest of sides on a 2 disc live. This could really be a sequel to those discs by showing both of those sides on this single disc. This is basically just act 3 on their career spanning the period after the first 2 discs and relies heavily on live doses of Hard Candy which wasnt out during the other live disc releases. I recommend this disc to any countin crows fan or any fan of music in general. This cd can be hard, soft, and absolutely beautiful.Free Music Review: Polished live CD covering their later material
Hit: 3 Stars
This is the Counting Crows second live CD release on a major label (see also Across A Wire). Adam Duritz (lead singer of Counting Crows) stated in his blog a few weeks ago that he considers New Amsterdam a bootleg and that fans should classify it along side their other Counting Crows bootlegs. If you consider this album part of that series it would be the third bootleg the band has released, the other two (By The Time We Got to Woodstock and Face the Promised Land) were self-produced and sold exclusively through their website. Unlike those two unoffical live albums, New Amsterm is professionally produced and well mastered. In terms of sound quality is their most polished live album to date (heavy on prestine sound quality, light on the rough improvisions that make Counting Crows such a great live band)
The set list appears to be fan-focused in that it covers tracks that the bands other live albums (unoffical and offical) this is probably not intentional since this set was recorded during the bands last tour to support Hard Candy, so it's not too surprising that it has a lot of Hard Candy tracks here; Overall this is very good mix of songs that will please fans.
I give this live collection only three stars because 1. Its a collection of songs recorded over three nights... Looking at the set list from those nights we see there was enough material for a two disc set, but the band wanted only choice cuts here... 2. The band recorded video footage these nights as well, that footage was produced in widescreen high definition format and all ready to be put on DVD a few years ago but the band pulled the plug... That footage was later aired on HDNet concerts as a cable special, but we never got a DVD. Fast forward to 2006 and now the band has gone forward with this album which contains audio from those shows. How hard would it have been to throw in the DVD and charge a few extra bucks (or better yet as a freebie?). Just knowing how little effort it would have taken for the band and the record label to make that happen has upset quite a few fans and its another reason why I'm not going above three stars.